Noetic Genesis: Process Ontology and the Geometric Foundations of Stable Otherness

Abstract

This paper proposes a process-ontological framework for understanding "Stable Otherness"—the dynamic relational structure that enables a meaningful encounter between self and other—across biological, cognitive, and artificial systems. Drawing on Whitehead’s process philosophy and enactivism, we introduce geometric analogies—specifically relational manifolds, connections (∇), and geometric flows—to formalize the dynamic structure of relationality. We define an irreversible three-phase process of Construction, Dissipation, and Unification (the CDU cycle) and reinterpret Hegelian Aufheben as "Covariant Aufheben"—the dynamic alignment of interpretive horizons. This framework illuminates the natural-historical continuity from pre-biotic systems to flowering plants, animals, humans, and AI, while offering a novel perspective on AI alignment as a co-evolutionary geometric alignment on a shared relational manifold. While primarily philosophical in scope, the paper employs structural analogies intended to bridge process ontology with potential future formalizations in differential geometry and non-equilibrium physics.